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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Maps of Utah showing Hie county boundaries and location of some of the principal communities in each are being be-ing sent to livestock men of the state, witli the request that they mark on them the approximate location of the ranges they are using this winter and give their present conditions in per cent of normal. The industrial commission of Utah has granted a lump sum payment of $1510 to William Kupp, who was injured in-jured when a piece of a nail he was driving flew up and hit his eye. He lost the sight of the eye, and under the law is entitled to payment at the rate of $16 a week for 100 weeks. Severe damage to the buds on fruit trees has been the result of the recent re-cent cold snap, according to C. K. Pat-tigrew, Pat-tigrew, crop pest inspector of Weber county, who has just made an inspection inspec-tion of a number of orchards. Peach and apricot buds suffered the most damage. Utah's senators and representatives in congress, are urged in a resolution unanimously ladopted by Salt Lake Rotarians to do everything possible to procure the early passage of the Davey sedition bill, introduced by Congressman Martin L. Davey. Boxelder county has planted the largest acreage of winter wheat in the state, 40,1X10 acres, which is 95 per cent of last year's acrage. Cache has planted 31,000 acres, or 91 per cent of last year's and Juab, 14,400 acres, the same acreage as last year. Contracts for bridges over the Sevier Se-vier riyer, 1 miles north of Redmond, Red-mond, to cost $11,305.02, and another over the San Pitch river in Sanpete county, 5 miles from Gunnison, to cost $7,541.90, have been approved by the road commission. A. O. Smoot, postmaster of I'rovo, is the owner of a. two-year-old cow which has just completed a record which makes her state champion butter cow for her age. She gave in one year 6167.3 pounds of milk and 513 pounds of butter. Estelle M. Patterson, of Frovo, was seriously injured in an automobile accident ac-cident at Xeedham, Mass., when an automobile, in which she witli friends were returning to college, was struck on the Needham railroad crossing by a freight train. By way of getting action early on next year's program, the state road commission has authorized Ira 11. Browning, its secretary, to advertise for bids' on the paving to be laid from Spanish Fork to Paysou, a distance of 5.74 miles.. Although he had nearly $200 in his possession, Jake Culm, 52 years of age, an umbrella mender, residing at Ogden, starved to death, according to the city physician who examined the body of the man. "Hay is a scarce article in Cache county. Many farmers have sold their cows, but others are compelled to buy hay, which is selling at $28 to $32 a ton at different Idaho points and costs $4 a ton to sIlp. The state is selling another $100,000 worth of state road bonds, bringing the total of the issue to date to $1,400,-000. $1,400,-000. This will leave $2,600,000 of tile bond issue to carry out the 1920 road program. The Salt Lake Ministerial association associa-tion has offered its co-operation in raising rais-ing funds for the erection of a monument monu-ment on the capitol grounds at Salt Lake in honor of the Mormon battalion. bat-talion. Andrew Haravgis, proprietor of a soft drink parlor at Scotield, will be formally charged with first degree murder for the shooting of W. H. Scott in a rooming touse at Salt Lake. The delinquent tax list for Weber county this year contained fewer mimes than for a long period, and sales' of property will be about 50 per cent of what they were last year. Alfred Olson, of Emery, died at a Salt Luke hospital, December 25, from a gunshot wound, accidentally inflicted inflict-ed three weeks previous by a 5-year-old brother-in-law. Joe Lopez, charged with the murder of a fellow countryman, in Grand county coun-ty about two weeks ago, attempted to take his own life in the county jail in Price. Kbeep in the nine-mile section of Carbon county are suffering with sore mouth, according to a report made to the U. S. weather bureau. George Lawes wjis found dead at Ogden having evidently been murdered. mur-dered. It is believed robbery wa Hie motive for the crime. The parenls and teac hers of Coalville Coal-ville met recently for the purxse of effecting an organization and getting better acquainted. Utah ranked second in the amount of wool produced in 1911) among the states iu the Twelfth federal reserve district. Fifty disabled men will begin vocational voca-tional training after the holidays at Utah educational institutions. Kane county has reported over the fop in the Mormon Battalion Monument Monu-ment drive. ' J. E. GaUgher, president of the Utah Associated Industries, lias written members of the Utah congressional delegation asking them to use their inuence in' obtaining the return of the railroads to private ownership. Payments of $16 a week were ordered or-dered last week by the industrial commission com-mission of Utah to be made by the Utah Fuel company in favor of the five minor children of James A. Wilde, who was killed in a mine accident at j Clear Creek, November 2G. The pay-I pay-I moms are required to be continued I until a total of $5000 is reached. |